Home Designer Essentials

Fun & Easy Home Design Software

Home Designer Essentials is fun & easy home design software for DIY home enthusiasts. Created by Chief Architect, so you can enjoy the same type of tools that the professionals use for home design, interior design, and outdoor living. Home Designer Essentials offers intuitive design and smart building tools for your home projects.

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DIY Home Design Software

Home Designer is 3D architectural software for residential home design. Discover why millions of do-it-yourselfers use Home Designer from Chief Architect software as the home design software product of choice to create their dream homes.

3D Home Design, Interior Design & Landscape Software

Home Designer Essentials makes it easy to design and visualize your ideas with smart building and powerful design tools. The tools have commonly accepted defaults for most building practices to assist you in your home design projects.

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Home Designer Essentials
DIY home design software

3D Visualization & Home Design

Home Designer automatically creates a 3D model as you draw the walls. And, in 3D you can continue design work - adding cabinets, placing furniture, painting walls or just visualizing your project. An extensive 3D Library of Essentials objects make it easy so that styles, finishes and other design details can be accurately visualized. See our Samples Gallery.